THE GARDENERS KALENDAR 



Garden Dishes, <&c. 



Cole, leiks, sweet herbes, onions, shallot, housed 

 cabbage, skirrets, turneeps, parsneeps, potatoes, 

 beet-rave, scorzonera, carrots, besides parsley and 

 fennel roots. 



Pickled beet-rave, artichock, cucumber; housed 

 aples, pears, and other conserved fruits with cyder 

 and other wines and drinks, as above. 



MARCH 



Re-delve, mix, and rake your ground for imme- 

 diate use. Delve about the roots of all your trees. 

 Yet plant trees and rather greens. Also prune such 

 except resinous. Propagate by laying, circum- 

 position, and especially by cuttings. Sow the seeds 

 of most trees and hardie greens. Cover those trees 

 whose roots lay bair and delve down the manures 

 that lay about your young trees all winter, cover ing 

 on leitter again topt with earth to prevent drought 

 in summer : this is a material observation and more 

 especially for such as are late planted. Slit the 

 bark of ill- thriving trees. Fell such as grow croked 

 in the nurserie. Graffing is yet in season (but too 

 late for stone fruit), cut off the heads of them in- 

 oculated. 



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